ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
the Coda where the main elements of the first theme are carried through once more.
Starting as a loud “funeral procession”, the music drops into silence in an elegiac
reminiscence. The “hearse” has arrived (wooden block), the “funeral bell” (tubular
bells) is heard and the “deceased” will be buried; with a few characteristic devices the
composer creates a vivid visual picture.
The musicologist Lyubov Berger wrote:
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Isaak Dunayevsky, a Soviet composer, who specialised in "light music" for operetta and film comedies.
The First Symphony is beautiful, sinking into one’s mind like a dense series of thoughts and
feelings. The flexible flow of concentrated musical material creates an insight into human
consciousness, recognising the tremendous panorama of nature as a whole… the glance
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